What are the benefits of back scraping? Do you know the 6 taboos of scraping?

Scraping is a health care method commonly used by many women. In summer, if you suffer from dizziness, fever, weakness in the limbs, nausea and vomiting and heat stroke, scraping the back can quickly help female friends relieve the symptoms of heat stroke. So, what are the benefits of back scraping?

Benefits of Back Scraping

1. Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis

Gua Sha can regulate the contraction and relaxation of muscles, so that the pressure between tissues can be adjusted to promote blood circulation around the scraped tissues. Increase tissue flow, thereby playing the role of "promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis" and "removing blood stasis and promoting new blood".

2. Disease prevention and health care

Back scraping therapy has a good effect on painful diseases, colds and fevers, sub-health conditions, disease prevention and health care, and mild organ dysfunction.

3. Relax muscles and dredge meridians

Scraping the back eliminates painful lesions and muscle tension. If tense muscles are relaxed, pain and compression symptoms can be significantly reduced or disappear, and it is also beneficial to the repair of lesions.

4. Eliminate toxins

The scraping process (using scraping to produce sha on the skin) can cause local tissue to become highly congested, and the blood vessels and nerves are stimulated to dilate, which increases the blood flow and lymph flow, strengthens the phagocytic function and carrying capacity, and accelerates the elimination of waste and toxins in the body, thereby purifying the blood, increasing the body's resistance, alleviating the disease and promoting recovery.

5. Strengthen the body and eliminate evil

Scraping the skin at the acupoints corresponding to the lesions will cause blue or purple congested sha marks to appear, so that the pores can be opened and unblocked, and various evil spirits such as wind, cold, phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, heat, pus, etc. that are stagnant in the meridian acupoints and corresponding tissues and organs will pass through the skin and fur to the outside, so that the meridians can be unblocked.

6. Weight loss

While using scraping to lose weight, patients should be advised to strengthen physical exercise, pay attention to a balanced diet, eat less high-fat, high-sugar, and high-calorie foods, and eat more vegetables and fruits. When dieting to lose weight, you should not be impatient or blindly reduce your food intake. Otherwise, drastic dietary restrictions may lead to dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, ketoacidosis, and even myocardial infarction and cerebral thrombosis in severe cases. Back scraping requires persistence, and the effect can be seen if you do it once a day. Generally, if you persist in scraping for three days to a week, constipation can be improved to a certain extent. If you stick to it for half a month to a month, you will noticeably feel your body become lighter and your belly fat has been reduced.

Taboos of Gua Sha

1. It is forbidden to use scraping therapy on any area with boils, ulcers, sores, rashes and lumps of unknown cause on the body surface, otherwise it will cause wound infection and spread. It is forbidden to use scraping therapy on the painful areas of acute sprains, trauma or fractures, because it will aggravate the bleeding at the wound.

2. People with severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, liver and kidney dysfunction, and general edema. Because Chinese medicine scraping therapy will cause subcutaneous congestion and promote blood circulation, which will increase the burden on the heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys and aggravate the condition.

3. People suffering from skin diseases such as skin ulcers: Because scraping requires scraping the surface of the skin, if there is an ulcer, it is easy to rupture and become infected, aggravating the condition.

4. People with hemophilia or leukemia: Since scraping can cause local congestion, those with low platelets should be careful when scraping. The parts that need scraping have external injuries: such as arm bruises, back skin breaks or leg fractures, etc.

5. Pregnant women: Do not scrape the abdomen, lumbar and sacral areas, as this may cause miscarriage.

6. Patients with varicose veins in the lower limbs: It is best not to have scraping for this group of people. If you want to have scraping, you should be cautious. The scraping direction should be from bottom to top, and the technique should be as light as possible. Gua Sha can cause local pain, and if you do not pay attention to avoid wind and cold after scraping, you may catch a cold. The above introduces the benefits and contraindications of back scraping. Back scraping can help us detoxify and dredge the meridians, but scraping is not suitable for people with skin ulcers.